Cook: Brittain ready for NRL debut

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Damien Cook has declared that South Sydney Rabbitohs teammate Billy Brittain is more than ready for the NRL should he go missing for State of Origin duties in the coming weeks.

Brittain joined the Rabbitohs for the 2018 season and has been their second-string hooker since Robbie Farah moved to the Wests Tigers last June. He has been extremely dominant in the Canterbury Cup NSW in this time and has now been named captain and hooker of the NSW Residents side that will play Queensland on Sunday.

Replacing the Australian hooker will be no small task should Brittain be given the chance to debut, but Cook – who has worked closely with Brittain over the past two years – has no doubt that his understudy will fit right into the NRL if called upon.

“Billy Brittain is a great young kid and if I was lucky enough to play Origin again this year there’s no doubt that he’ll do a great job stepping in to play hooker for our club,” Cook told NSWRL.com.au.

“I’d like to think we’re very similar in style; he’s got a great running game, he’s got great deception and he’s strong and tough in defence.

“The boys love him around training and I’m confident that if I have to go missing for any representative honours, which I will hopefully do, then he’ll come in and do a great job.”

In both years of playing in the Canterbury Cup NSW, he has made the competition’s Residents side. For Souths this year, he has been close to, if not, their best player in a team that is close to the top of the ladder.

Like any kid that that has tied up a pair of bootlaces, Brittain’s lifelong dream has been to make his NRL debut.